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CO-WIN: Interplay of People, Process and Technology at its best
CoWIN is a cloud-based application developed by the Government of India (GOI) for the Covid-19 vaccination drive in the country. Beneficiaries looking for vaccines can register on the CoWIN site by uploading a valid photo identity proof document. The CoWIN application also has the provision for the creation of Department Users (administrators and supervisors) and implementing the inoculation process. It is an open-source, modular, open standard channeled, robust, secure, scalable, interoperable, and evolutionary process automated engine. It is operating system agnostic. All we need as a user is a browser to access and operate the application modules. For administrators, quick deployment and easy data migration make for fast adoption of Co-Win.
CoWIN, short for COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network is an extension of India’s indigenous system called the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (e-VIN) system. The e-VIN was introduced by GOI in collaboration with GAVI in 2015. The purpose of e-VIN was to enable the real-time visibility of vaccines provided to the states for different diseases and check the temperature across various cold chain facilities across the country. The idea behind e-VIN was to make vaccine utilization more efficient, avoid stock-out events and reduce wastage.
Co-WIN portal of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has complete security measures and adequate safeguards for data privacy with a Web Application Firewall (WAF), uses of Anti-DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) use, SSL (Security Sockets Layer) /TLS (Transport Layer Security). The SSL/TLS certificates allow web browsers to identify and establish encrypted network connections to websites using the SSL/TLS protocol. The IT People regularly carry out a vulnerability assessment and Identity and Access Management of the Co-WIN portal.
Length of the Case: 1 hr